rand VS rayon

Compare rand vs rayon and see what are their differences.

rand

A Rust library for random number generation. (by rust-random)

rayon

Rayon: A data parallelism library for Rust (by rayon-rs)
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rand rayon
29 66
1,553 10,082
2.4% 2.9%
8.2 9.0
6 days ago 2 days ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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rand

Posts with mentions or reviews of rand. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.

rayon

Posts with mentions or reviews of rayon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rand and rayon you can also consider the following projects:

crossbeam - Tools for concurrent programming in Rust

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

RxRust - The Reactive Extensions for the Rust Programming Language

rust-numpy - PyO3-based Rust bindings of the NumPy C-API

tokio-rayon - Mix async code with CPU-heavy thread pools using Tokio + Rayon

sqlx - 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

coroutine-rs - Coroutine Library in Rust

libfringe - a Rust library implementing safe, lightweight context switches, without relying on kernel services

rxRust - Rust implementation of Reactive Extensions.

rust-postgres - Native PostgreSQL driver for the Rust programming language

fastrand - A simple and fast random number generator

PyO3 - Rust bindings for the Python interpreter